This links to the archived version. Original link is: https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1
Elon Musk and his supporters offer several explanations for his contrarian views, unfiltered speech and provocative antics. They’re an expression of his creativity. Or the result of his mental-health challenges. Or fallout from his stress, or sleep deprivation.
In recent years, some executives and board members at his companies and others close to the billionaire have developed a persistent concern that there is another component driving his behavior: his use of drugs.
And they fear the Tesla TSLA -0.18%decrease; red down pointing triangle and SpaceX chief executive’s drug use could have major consequences not just for his health, but also the six companies and billions in assets he oversees, according to people familiar with Musk and the companies.
The world’s wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties around the world, where attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their phones to enter, according to people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it. Musk has previously smoked marijuana in public and has said he has a prescription for the psychedelic-like ketamine.
In 2018, for example, he took multiple tabs of acid at a party he hosted in Los Angeles. The next year he partied on magic mushrooms at an event in Mexico. In 2021, he took ketamine recreationally with his brother, Kimbal Musk, in Miami at a house party during Art Basel. He has taken illegal drugs with current SpaceX and former Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson.
Etc. etc. That should get the bulk of the summary in. Given Elon Musk's widely known partying in Silicon Valley, as well as him acknowledging the use of both Ketamine and Ambien as party drugs, the news of harder drugs is no surprise to me at least.
Elon has denied this article, but here's some interesting details. This one is spicy:
Hundreds of SpaceX employees gathered around mission control at the rocket company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., in anticipation of Musk, who was nearly an hour late to arrive at the all-hands meeting about the company’s latest rocket.
When he finally took the stage, Musk was strangely incomprehensible at times. He slurred his words and rambled for around 15 minutes, according to executives in attendance, and referred repeatedly to SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket prototype, which was known as BFR, as “Big F—ing Rocket.”
I don't expect much to happen with regards to TSLA board or SpaceX board. But maybe the Feds will be forced to step in? Elon does have a top secret clearance apparently, and hard drugs are a big no-no.
Absolute nonsense. LSD is well studied, yes, and those studies show LSD has a half life of about 3 hours. At that rate, the drug is completely cleared from the system to undetectable levels within a single day.
This is drug war nonsense and you are spreading misinformation.
Yes, users can report ‘flashbacks’ sometimes months later, but whatever the reason, it has nothing to do with the drug still being in the body. To claim so is absolute horsefeathers.
Heh. Its up to you to explain these 3-month or 6-month trips. Not me.
All I want to point out is that LSD has long-term side effects, and you've already acknowledged this fact. I dunno why you're so intent on twisting language around like a damn lawyer. Who cares if LSD is embedded inside of you or if LSD "merely" causes permanent brain damage that lasts for months? It doesn't matter, LSD has long-term side effects. I don't give a shit about the precise mechanism under which it happens. I only care that its documented and well acknowledged. Leave it to the scientists and doctors to argue the whys or hows.
In any case, the long-term risks are known and even you acknowledge them. Everything else discussed is just language, lawyering, or posturing.
In any case, now that Elon Musk has been proven to be taking at minimum, LSD, Cocaine, and Alcohol (all of which have proven long-term effects on the brain, though the exact mechanisms are still medically a mystery), his erratic behavior can in fact be "blamed on drugs" to some extent.
Then again, as some people like to point out: there's no drug that exists that turns you into a far-right white nationalist. So that's just Elon being Elon. But there's a lot of presentations and public appearances where Elon is slurring words, seemingly confused and not fully cognizant of what's seemingly going on. I know the Reddit-RealTesla was talking about some really weird earnings calls last year that could be related to this drugs issue.
If your point is that Elon Musk is fundamentally a piece of shit and that various drugs have nothing to do with that... I can agree with you there. No amount of LSD or Cocaine will turn you into a racist. That's all on Musk's personal life. But there's plenty of behaviors Elon Musk has demonstrated this past year that are indicative of recreational drug use. (IE: Late-night 3am Tweets talking about Alcohol + Ambien). Erratic behavior during public meetings. Bipolar aggressiveness and rage. Euphoric plans to buy Twitter and build an "everything company" and actually believe in that bullshit.
At some point, you have to ask yourself if Elon Musk is bipolar, or if he's tripping on acid. But now we know. He's mixing uppers (cocaine) and downers (alcohol, Ambien), and halluciongens (LSD, Shrooms, Ketamine). That's a lot of fucking experimentation and even some of the hardest-party drug users I know of would shy away from such experimentation and diversity in drug usage. Drug mixtures are one of the least studied issues in party-drug culture, and most smart people would avoid mixing drugs. Its no small wonder that he's acting bipolar if he's really taking all these different drugs randomly at parties.